Substitute Quotes
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For many things we can find substitutes, but there is not now, nor will there ever be, a substitute for creative thought.
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The “brightness” of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions.
paul goodman— p. 85 (Growing Up Absurd (1956))
Still not satisfied that a qualified prince had been born to the dynasty, Satyavati prevailed upon her son to try a third time. It was again the turn of the first princess, but she aghast at the prospect of another encounter with Vyasa, sent to him as her substitute, a servant woman. Vyasa and this servant woman both substitutes, conceived Vidura, who became the wise counselor to the Kaurava court, said to be incarnation of the god Dharma.
Bruce M. Sullivan— Seer of the Fifth Veda: Krsna Dvaipayana Vyasa in the Mahabharata (p. 58)
Notes: When Aono, Yurito's sister, attempted to kill Matsuri with a katana, Yurito stood in the path of her blade. Yurito is slain and his illusionary form (he was a fake substitute created by Aono through Yaka powers) dissolved back into a sea of papers.
— Source: Play On! (a little-known dramedy play)
— Notes: The "character" is a fictious villain in the play posing as a scientist, who killed a archeologist named Sir Percival, for a necklace known mostly as the Darjeeling Diamond. But when a friend of one of the "characters", Steven Sellers, tips him off, Stanley Grimes is exposed as the murderer. When the police arrives as he holds the people inside the mansion he is in hostage, Grimes starts to have convulsions due to the diamond's curse and dies. Due to there being problems with during the progress on rehersals (then the play itself) with the dialougue, the death is made even more hilarious with the lines being flubbed, especially near the end of the play, when the "characters" exclaim the curse is from the three different names of the diamond and the "character" Lord Dudley shouts "All of them!" to try to get the play moving along. (Please note that when the word character was in quotation marks, I mean the roles the actual characters, which are the actors, and not the figures like Stanley Grimes or Steven Sellers, played).
War alone can carry to the maximum tension all human energies and imprint with the seal of nobility those people who have the courage to confront it; every other test is a mere substitute.
— c.1930 Quoted in Denis Mack-Smith Mussolini's Roman Empire (1976), p.47.
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight.
conrad black— Black, Conrad et al, "A Brief to the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media from the Sherbrooke Record...", 1969 : Despite Black's involvement in press ownership, he heaped scorn on journalism
DeMaistre and Bonald … wanted to teach men submission, to give them the religion of established power, to substitute, in Bonald’s phrase, “the evidence of authority for the authority of evidence.”
alain finkielkraut— p. 22 (The Undoing of Thought (1988))
And give to the orphans their property, and substitute not worthless (things) for (their) good (ones), and devour not their property (adding) to your own property. This is surely a great sin.
— 2 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
steve martin— Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
benjamin n. cardozo— Lecture at Yale University Law School (1923) as quoted in The American Journal of International Law Vol. 29 (1935), p. 32.
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.
(George) Norman Douglas— 1911Siren Land,'Rain on the Hills'.
Some time ago, in an interview that turned towards the Theatre, I suggested that 'Pubic hair is not an adequate substitute for wit'. My point now is that depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult.
— 1974 Outcries and Asides,'Danger of ShockTactics'.
Shouting isnot a substitute for thinking and reason isnot the subversion but the salvation of freedom.
— 1954 Lecture at Harvard,17 Mar.
That pastor effects the most in the end who comes into closest personal contact with his charge. No amount of organizing, no skill in creating machinery and manipulating "committees" is a substitute for this. Who feels the power of a tear in the eye of a committee?
john hall— P. 413. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
iris murdoch— A Severed Head (1976) p. 181
What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.
henri nouwen— In the Name of Jesus, 1989
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson— An Apology for Idlers.
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
william howard taft— Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils, chapter 3 (1913)
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
james fenimore cooper— On the Disadvantages of Democracy
When you confuse art with propaganda, you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet. If "God" means nothing to you (or less than nothing) I'll cheerfully substitute one of your own favorite words, "freedom". You confuse freedom the only freedom with absolute tyranny… all over this so called world, hundreds of millions of servile and insolent inhuman unbeings are busily unrolling in the enlightenment of propaganda.
e. e. cummings— Essay in the anthology The War Poets (1945) edited by Oscar Williams
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves .
Eric Hoffer— Section 8 (The True Believer (1951))
In nature, light creates the color; in the picture, color creates light. Every color shade emanates a very characteristic light no substitute is possible.
hans hofmann— As quoted in Readings in American art, 1900 -1975 (1975) by Barbara Rose, p. 117Variant: In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.
wilhelm reich— Ch. 1 : Ideology As Material Power, Section 4 : The Social Function of Sexual Suppression
Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.'... A question of the moment is, indeed, a substitute for some notion, such as the idea of God, or hereditary monarchy, or national glory, that has hitherto acted as a symbol of human co-ordination. It provides no new positive certainty to replace the discredited certainty, but is what the name implies: the raising of a question which the old certainty no longer answers.
laura riding— Laura Riding and Robert Graves from "Poetry and Politics", reprinted in The Common Asphodel (1949)
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit…
— W. Somerset Maugham The Creative Impulse (1926).
When intellectual formulations are treated simply by relegating them to the past and permitting the simple passage of time to substitute for development, the suspicion is justified that such formulations have not really been mastered, but rather they are being suppressed.
— Theodor Adorno, quoted in: Michael Bull (2000) Sounding Out the City, p. 1
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, "An Apology for Idlers", Virginibus Puerisque and Later Essays (1881), p. 80.
For many things we can find substitutes, but there is not now, nor will there ever be, a substitute for creative thought.
crawford greenewalt— Crawford Greenewalt, Chemical and Engineering News, November 10, 1952, as quoted by Alan Tower Waterman in Research for National Defense, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March 1953), Vol. 9, No. 2,ISSN 0096-3402, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., p. 39.
Typing is no substitute for thinking .
— Richard W. Hamming cited in: John G. Kemeny, ?Thomas E. Kurtz (1987) Structured BASIC programming. p. 118
In war there is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur— Speech to Congress, 19 April 1951.
